Its more like " There are difficulties on collecting data and historical reasons that leads to bias in the trained model"
Other side " no you are a racist and responsible for bias due for being a white male"
More importantly, how should that make us feel about the very real possibility of LeCun serving as an expert advisor on, say, police or other military applications of AI? Would he again just throw up his hands and say, "Well the training data consists disproportionately of black faces, so the model disproportionately implicates black people, nothing we can do about it"?
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